Trump Team Allegedly Leaked Questions From Fox Town Hall Before Event

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Trump Team Allegedly Leaked Questions From Fox Town Hall Before Event
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Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt claims in his upcoming book, 'Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,' that Trump's campaign received leaked questions from Fox News ahead of a planned town hall event in 2016. Isenstadt states that a senior aide received images of the planned questions from a Fox insider, giving Trump's team an advantage before the live broadcast.

Then-candidate Trump sat down with Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum in front of a studio audience in Des Moines, just days ahead of the state’s Republican primary vote. Some of Trump ’s advisers did not want him to participate in the event, Politico’s Alex Isenstadt reports in Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump ’s Return to Power, according to excerpts published Wednesday by CNN.

Some of these aides believed the conservative cable giant to be too antagonistic and feared their candidate would not seriously prep for interrogative questions. “About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start,” however, Isenstadt writes, “a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox. Holy s--t, the team thought. They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot. This was like a student getting a peek at the test before the exam started.” (Fox News told CNN that “while we do not have any evidence of this occurring, and Alex Isenstadt has conveniently refused to release the images for fact checking, we take these matters very seriously and plan to investigate should there prove to be a breach within the network.” A Fox source familiar with the matter relayed to Vanity Fair that “if there was a breach, it was not from Bret or Martha or the top editorial levels of the network and there is a sophisticated and extensive digital footprint of all editorial material.”) According to Isenstadt, Baier and MacCallum—no slouches when it comes to grilling Trump—intended to press the then-candidate about his business dealings and whether he would “disavow political violence” and whether he’d be “focused on retribution” in a second term. “Trump was pissed,” Isenstadt writes in the excerpt previewed by CNN, and felt such questions constituted “attacks.” Nevertheless, “with the questions in hand” ahead of the live TV event, Trump’s team “workshopped answers,” the reporter note

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